Rural Support Service. Publicly funded health services in country South Australia will be supported by the Rural Support Service, hosted within the Barossa Hills Fleurieu LHN. The service brings together clinical and corporate advisory services focused on improving quality and safety for the regional LHNs. The Rural Support Service includes highly specialist, system-wide clinical and corporate capabilities, clinical leadership and expertise. The purpose of the Rural Support Service is: • To support regional LHNs to deliver safe, efficient and accessible health care to people living in rural and remote communities. • To provide system-wide capacity and capability across a range of specialised clinical and corporate functions. • To enable the regional LHNs to develop local capacity and capability to become self- sufficient in the delivery of these functions. The specific functions to be delivered by the Rural Support Service will be agreed between the six regional LHNs and documented through an annual Memorandum of Administrative Arrangement. The Rural Support Service will be led by Management Oversight Committee consisting of the six regional LHNs with an independent chair. The oversight of the Rural Support Service will be guided by a governance charter developed by the six regional LHNs.
